I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

[Ken Burch]

198. It was mentioned by one guy in one speech. He shouldn't have said what he said

That person's supporters, for the record, can't be assumed to be collectively dismissive of social justice.

If the Democratic base(a lot of whom supported that guy)want victory, we need to acknowledged that it's important to make common cause with at least most of the left), that uniting progressive voters is more important than appeasing the party's donor wing, the only sector of the party that supports "pro-business economic policies".

It's not a "conversation" to post OPs that are collective denunciations of everyone who supports economic justice(which this OP is, with its implication that MOST economic justice supporters don't support social justice. They support social justice as much as the Democratic base supports economic justice. It's time to admit that and move on towards working for unity.

We need the votes of those who still want a real effort to fight poverty, those who fight for a living wage, those who don't accept that Democratic foreign policy HAS to be just as militaristic as Republican foreign policy.

Those are the only votes we can gain between now and 2018 and 2020-and we HAVE to gain votes because we can never win another election solely on the votes of the people in our current base-many of whom, as you point out, are on the left on economic issues and didn't want us being status quo on those issues.

We cant win those votes over with threads like this, OR with implicit demands that the kind of voters I'm describing renounce the people they supported, which is what I strongly suspect the true intent of this OP is about.